But-for reasoning gives collapsed as built analysis a different character from methods that insert delay into an original baseline. The College of Contract Management covers retrospective versus prospective analysis, specific delay events, critical delay, and comparison of forensic methodologies. External delay protocols commonly describe the analytical question as what completion might have looked like without selected delay events. Removing one event can therefore change logic, float, and path relationships simultaneously. The less obvious methodological difficulty concerns counterfactual realism, because deletion from a model does not automatically prove that unaffected work would have progressed exactly as the recalculated network suggests.
But-for reasoning gives collapsed as built analysis a different character from methods that insert delay into an original baseline. The College of Contract Management covers retrospective versus prospective analysis, specific delay events, critical delay, and comparison of forensic methodologies. External delay protocols commonly describe the analytical question as what completion might have looked like without selected delay events. Removing one event can therefore change logic, float, and path relationships simultaneously. The less obvious methodological difficulty concerns counterfactual realism, because deletion from a model does not automatically prove that unaffected work would have progressed exactly as the recalculated network suggests.